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Topic:
Pastries
For Refugees
Oswald Golter was a missionary in northern China during the 1940's.
After ten years service he was returning home. His ship stopped in
India, and while waiting for a boat home he found a group of refugees
living in a warehouse on the pier. Unwanted by anyone else the refugees
were stranded there.
Golter went to visit them and as it was Christmastime wished them a
meery Christmas and asked them what they would like for Christmas.
"We're not Christians," they said. "We don't believe
in Christmas."
"I know," said the missionary, "but what do you want
for Christmas?" They described some German pastries they were
particularly fond of, and so Oswald Golter cashed in his ticket home,
used the money to buy baskets and baskets of the pastries, took them to
the refugees, and wished them a merry Christmas.
When he later told the story, a student said, "But sir, why did
you do that for them? They weren't Christians. They don't even believe
in Jesus."
"I know," he replied, "but I do!"
Attribution:
Reported in James W. Moore, STANDING ON THE PROMISES OR SITTING ON THE
PREMISES (Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1995), pp.79-80. Moore
sourced the story from Fred Craddock, Newscope Inspiration Series Tape,
January 1990
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